Vadim N. Gureyev currently works at the Information Analysis Center, A.A. Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS. He is also associate professor at Novosibirsk State Technical University. His research interests include scientometrics, peer review processes, bibliometrics, information and library science, information literacy, plagiarism detection, and publication ethics. Vadim actively collaborates with State Public Scientific Technological Library and Association of Science Editors and Publishers in Russia.
Currently, the Russian academic and publishing communities are witnesses and participants of sign... more Currently, the Russian academic and publishing communities are witnesses and participants of significant changes in access to scientific information, the system of bibliometric assessment, and scientific communication. Despite some successful initiatives of the Russian academic journals, government structures for scientific and technical information, as well as commercial companies in changing one resources with others, development of new system of bibliometric evaluation and development of novel information services, it seems unreasonable to give up significant achievements of the last decades. Particularly, it is important to maintain the level of visibility and increase the quality of Russian academic journals in Web of Science Core Collection, although submission of new titles is now suspended. Due to the highest authority and wide use of this system worldwide, maintaining the proper level of visibility of the Russian journals in Web of Science database is believed to be a priority task. The paper discusses current problems concerning evaluation of representation of Russian academic serials in Journal Citation Reports and certain articles in Web of Science Core Collection in the light of lack of access to full-function versions of these databases. Updated list of Russian journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports / Web of Science as of 2023 is prepared.
The paper demonstrates the features of author and organizational publication profiles in Dimensio... more The paper demonstrates the features of author and organizational publication profiles in Dimensions and Lens information systems. In recent years, these systems have been successfully competing with many subscription-based systems. The authors discuss the advantages of these databases in terms of coverage of research content in publication profiles as compared to that of commercial bibliographic platforms, as well as the wide range of functional capabilities. As illustrated by publication profiles of two research organizations and their authors, we describe original approaches to searching bibliographic information, as well as editing bibliographic errors in databases. These features enable (a) to monitor effectively the scholarly output of research organizations and authors, and (b) to enhance visibility of research findings in the international information space. Solving information-retrieval problems and editing publication profiles of Russian organizations and authors in Dimensions and Lens prove to be similar to that of commercial systems, i. e. Web of Science and Scopus. The vast experience of working with proprietary databases and subscription-based systems, would enable Russian academic libraries to adapt to new interfaces in a short time frame.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2023
Appealing to external bibliographic systems is an inevitable stage when organizing in-house resou... more Appealing to external bibliographic systems is an inevitable stage when organizing in-house resources in research libraries and information services. On the one hand, data from external sources can be widely used when working with institutional repositories, e.g., at the stage of searching for data on the organization's papers, creating alerts for new entries or exporting data using appropriate formats to cut the time for bibliographic metadata processing. On the other hand, the most complete data from in-house databases can be used for data correction in external bibliographic systems to increase data accuracy in the organization's publication profiles and enhancing the visibility of bibliographic information for the scientific community. During this time of open science, the use of open access bibliographic systems is becoming more promising, especially in the light of expensiveness and other problems with access to commercial bibliographic products. The paper draws on a set of papers of one of the Russian Academy of Sciences organizations to demonstrate the facilities of open access bibliographic resources when working with institutional repository. We compare the previously used commercial systems Web of Science and Scopus with the open access Russian Science Citation Index, Dimensions, and Lens with regard to coverage of organizations' papers, as well as external databases' appropriateness for library technological processes.
The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographi... more The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographic databases that can be useful in the limited access to proprietary information systems. Databases were primarily evaluated with regard to their usefulness for researchers and research libraries who solve the problems of information and patent search, bibliometric assessment of authors, promotion of papers in international information space, searching collaborators or conducting bibliometric studies. We focused on multidisciplinary databases covering wide range of international scientific literature. Based on our own experience and literature review, we concluded on possibility in principle to solve almost all information-retrieval and bibliometric tasks using current open bibliographic databases and their web-tools. Furthermore, large volumes of metadata are now regarded as a basic and non-unique feature of different databases, while analytical characteristics are taking centre stage.
The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with rec... more The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with reclamation activities at the sites of waste storage in the mining industry in the Russian Federation. The environmental, economic and social impacts of mining are discussed. The role of reclamation in the recovery of the disturbed lands and ecosystems is illustrated, and the methods and stages of reclamation are described. The main obstacles of reclamation to be successive are revealed. It is highlighted that the spotlight should be on improvement of reclamation legislation to enhance efficiency of rehabilitation measures.
The paper aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to academic ... more The paper aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to academic journal ranking as exemplified by Russian LIS serials divided into three groups according to their authority. To reveal the EBMs' contribution in each group, papers by EBMs in their parent journals as well as other sources were studied with comparative analyses of EBMs' papers in parent journals and papers by other authors in the same journals. The Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) was used for collecting indicators that reflect journal ranks and scholarly output of EBMs. We found no relationship between journal ranking and a share of EBMs' papers in a parent journal. Citation analyses of EBMs' papers as well as citations of parent journals made by EBMs from other sources reveals a significant effect of EBMs on the rank of top-tiered and low-tiered journals pointing at active participation of EBMs in the development of parent journals. Zero or even negative impact of EBMs' papers on the journal rank is registered in the middle-tiered group implying formalistic engagement of researchers to join the editorial boards, lack of interest in the journal work, or possible violation of the publication ethics by publishing poorly cited or uncited papers in parent journals due to less strict peer-review processes. The paper adds to a better understanding of the nature of journal ranking, particularly, impact factors, as well as performance of EBMs in the field of LIS publications. The ethics and possible conflict of interests related to publishing in parent journals are discussed. The results of the study can be useful for revising journal policy or editorial board composition.
The Siberian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2022
Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection ... more Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection vary from a slight cold to critical condition requiring artificial lung ventilation and support of cardiovascular system. Main risk factors of severe disease include high viral load, co-infection with other pathogens, age from 0 to 2 years and older than 65 years, and immunodeficiency. Cardiac manifestations of the infection are usually caused by indirect effects due to inflammatory reaction resulting in systemic increase in proinflammatory cytokines, so called cytokine storm. However, there have been reports on the identification of respiratory viruses isolated directly from the myocardial tissue, or testing of viral RNA in the myocardium using real-time polymerase chain reaction. This review discusses the direct and indirect effects of respiratory viral infections on causing cardiovascular complications. The authors discuss the similarities and differences of the immunopathogenic mechanisms associated with COVID-19, influenza infection, as well as diseases caused by enteroviruses, respiratory syncytial viruses, metapneumoviruses, and parainfluenza viruses.
Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology, 2022
The first part of this paper presented the current knowledge on two very significant respiratory ... more The first part of this paper presented the current knowledge on two very significant respiratory diseases with high pandemic potential, COVID-19 and influenza. The second part reviews other pathogens that cause acute respiratory viral infections, ARVI, including parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses and specifically respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, bocaviruses, and seasonal coronaviruses. The review presents modern data on the structure and replication of viruses, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of diseases, diagnostics, preventive vaccination, and antiviral drugs. Topical issues regarding ARVI vaccination and the search for new broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are discussed.
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections requires safe, effective, and inexpensi... more Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections requires safe, effective, and inexpensive vaccines that can be rapidly developed. DNA vaccines are candidates that meet these criteria, but one of their drawbacks is their relatively weak immunogenicity. Electroporation (EP) is an effective way to enhance the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines, but because of the different configurations of the devices that are used for EP, it is necessary to carefully select the conditions of the procedure, including characteristics such as voltage, current strength, number of pulses, etc. In this study, we determined the optimal parameters for delivery DNA vaccine by electroporation using the BEX CO device. BALB/c mice were used as a model. Plasmid DNA phMGFP was intramuscular (I/M) injected into the quadriceps muscle of the left hind leg of animals using insulin syringes, followed by EP. As a result of the experiments, the following EP parameters were determined: direct and reverse polarity rectangular DC current in three pulses, 12 V voltage for 30 ms and 950 ms intervals, with a current limit of 45 mA. The selected protocol induced a low level of injury and provided a high level of GFP expression. The chosen protocol was used to evaluate the immunogenicity of the DNA vaccine encoding the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 protein (pVAXrbd) injected by EP. It was shown that the delivery of pVAXrbd via EP significantly enhanced both specific humoral and cellular immune responses compared to the intramuscular injection of the DNA vaccine.
Aiming to increase Russian journals’ authority and enhance their readership, and consequently, jo... more Aiming to increase Russian journals’ authority and enhance their readership, and consequently, journals’ rankings, detection of reasons for Russian authors’ transition to foreign journals is important. Recent studies demonstrated that up to one-third of Russian authors orients toward top-tiered foreign serials and do not intend to change their publication preferences. One of the obvious formal reasons is in quantitative indexes used in calculations in research organizations while evaluating the research capacity of their staff. However, external circumstances, as well as the risk of part or full restriction for Russian authors in some top-tiered international journals lead to obstacles to the fulfillment of previous obligations. Under such conditions increase in the reputation of Russian serials, their compliance with international publishing standards, increase in their bibliometric indexes are of high importance. The paper aims to reveal the main issues caused to force Russian authors to select foreign journals and stop collaborating with domestic serials. Analyses of those reasons are believed to help detect the main vector for the successful development of Russian academic journals.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2022
The paper considers issues of the development, filling, and maintenance of databases of research ... more The paper considers issues of the development, filling, and maintenance of databases of research papers published by authors employed in a given research organization. Such databases should show relationships between entities within the database and links to metadata elements in external databases to enable functional search of bibliometric information with high precision and recall. It is noted that the database should have the ability to export data in the formats required for various reports. A new function of publication databases is described: popularizing and promoting publications in the scientific information space by creating open-access repositories and web mirrors. Finally, the article shares 25 years of experience of supporting a publication database at the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences that meets all of the modern requirements of the scientometric evaluation of scholarly output and scientific potential of research organizations.
Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology, 2022
The paper briefly reviews pathogens causing acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), including... more The paper briefly reviews pathogens causing acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), including influenza viruses; coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2; parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses, and specifically respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumoviruses, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, and bocaviruses. This review presents modern data on the structure and replication of viruses, epidemiology, and immunopathogenesis of diseases and on diagnostics, preventive vaccination, and antiviral drugs for the treatment of ARVIs. Special attention is paid to the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused COVID-19 pandemic with analyses of similarities and differences between COVID-19 and other ARVIs, first of all, influenza virus. Topical issues regarding ARVI vaccination and the search for new broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are discussed.
Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research an... more Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research and presenting its results. Publication ethics challenges cover a wide range of problems of varying importance that involve all participants of publication processes: authors, academic authorities, peer-reviewers, editorial board members, publishers, and funders. All stakeholders put efforts to make modern science and publication processes ethical. This goal is achieved first of all through detailed criteria of publication ethics and extensive author guidelines, as well as by increasing the level of awareness of these criteria in educational programs aimed at prophylactics of research misconduct. However, there is a need for technical facilities for detecting different cases of violation of ethical principles, and bibliometric methods are one of the most promising approaches. The paper summarizes the authors’ recent studies on bibliometric perspectives for detecting plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, and official misconduct among editorial board members.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2021
Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals play a critical role in the verification of t... more Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals play a critical role in the verification of the quality of published papers and dissemination of knowledge. This results in increased interest in the work and scholarly output of EBMs themselves, including publications in parent journal. This paper tries to specify various publication relationships between EBMs and their parent journals and evaluates them focusing on publication ethics principles. The authors propose an additional bibliometric index referred to as the coefficient of publication relationships between EBMs and parent journals that describes publication ties between EBMs and parent journals, the opportunity for their effective use for the development of their journal, as well as possible cases of violation of publication ethics criteria. The results of validation of the new coefficient using a sample of Russian Earth Science serials are given.
The paper summarizes experience of the authors as peer-reviewers of more than 100 manuscripts in ... more The paper summarizes experience of the authors as peer-reviewers of more than 100 manuscripts in twelve Russian and foreign academic journals on Library and Information Science in the last seven years. Prepared peer-reviews were used for making a list of the most usual critical and special comments for each manuscript that were subsequently structured for the conducted analyzes. Typical issues accompanying the peer-review process are shown. Significant differences between the results of peer-review in Russian and foreign journals are detected: although the initial quality of newly submitted manuscripts is approximately equal, the final published versions in foreign journals addressed all critical and the majority of minor reviewers’ comments, while in Russian journals more than one third of final versions were published with critical gaps. We conclude about low interest in high quality peer reviews among both authors and editors-in-chief in Russian journals. Despite the limitations of the samples, the obtained findings can be useful when evaluating the current peer-review system in Russian academic journals on Library and Information Science.
The authors review the papers delivered at the Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibli... more The authors review the papers delivered at the Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibliometrics, open data and publications in science” held within the framework of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea–2021”) (June 5–13, 2021, Republic of Crimea, Russian Federation). The Conference key topics discussed at its three sessions were: trends in sci-tech development, scientometric studies of scientific periodicals, as well as case studies and regional research through scientometric tools. The hot topics in Russian scientometrics are specified, including applied studies of bibliometric analysis for assessment of researchers, organizations, countries and journals, as well as of science migration streams, and theoretical development of new indicators of or search for scientometric frontiers. Within the practical part of the conference, The Basics of Bibliometrics crash course was offered to the participants. It comprised essential knowledge, competences and skills of work with science citation databases. The need for the more intensive exchange of knowledge within the Russian emerging scientometrics community to expand competences, to strengthen communication between those assessing and being assessed is substantiated. These would contribute not only scientometrics but the Russian science on the whole.
Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering, 2021
The relevance of the study is caused by the increased necessity to solve ecological issues in Rus... more The relevance of the study is caused by the increased necessity to solve ecological issues in Russian Arctic regions considering their importance for the development of the country. The task complexity lies both in the presence of cumulative environmental damage and the topicality to elaborate sustainable approaches to natural resource development in the near future. The main aim is to analyze the condition of the ecosystem and its separate components in the Norilsk industrial area as one of the significant resource territories in the Russian Arctic. Special attention is paid to techniques of monitoring the environment and official documents regulating ecology that require the elimination of acute contradictions and legislative vacuum. Methods of the research include analyses of research papers published in Russian and foreign sources in the last decade on environmental challenges in the Russian Arctic and especially in the Norilsk industrial area. Various bibliographic systems including the Russian Science Citation Index, Scopus, and «Environment protection» abstract service by VINITI were used. Results. Unique characteristics of Arctic regions were revealed that require both non-traditional technological concepts when conducting an industrial activity, and special approaches when regulating and controlling ecological state. The example of the Norilsk industrial area was used to demonstrate improvements in ecological aspects of industrial activity of mining and smelting enterprise even despite the incident with a fuel spill in 2020. However, the attempted measures are still insufficient to regard the current ecological situation as satisfactory. The problems of neutral ization of cumulative environmental damage have awaited solutions. The efficiency of planned measures for improvement of the state of the environment essentially depends on changes in legal acts poorly considering specific features of Arctic territories, as well as on closer collaboration of industrial enterprises both with the scientific community and local residents.
A review of studies on the question of the mobility of Russian scientists in the recent period of... more A review of studies on the question of the mobility of Russian scientists in the recent period of Russian history is provided. The main stages and trends in the development of academic mobility over the past three decades are shown. The geography of migration flows, which involve employees of Russian research organizations and universities, is generalized. The unique position of Russia in terms of attractiveness for migrants from neighboring countries, which makes it possible to compensate to a certain extent for the outflow of domestic specialists, is emphasized. In addition, the authors draw attention to the methodological aspects of studying academic mobility and assessing its effectiveness, including the problem of data reliability and the development of a system of indicators.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, Dec 2020
The methodological and technical aspects of identifying research fronts and trends in the develop... more The methodological and technical aspects of identifying research fronts and trends in the development of science are considered. Based on the literature data, a comparison of scientometric methods for finding research fronts was carried out: analysis of publication activity, direct citation analysis, co-citation analysis , bibliographic coupling, and content analysis. The advantages of the combined application of various approaches are shown, the role of expert assessment and verification of the results of scientometric analysis is emphasized. We revealed topical problems associated with the detection of scientific fronts by scientometric methods and showed promising directions in their solution.
Currently, the Russian academic and publishing communities are witnesses and participants of sign... more Currently, the Russian academic and publishing communities are witnesses and participants of significant changes in access to scientific information, the system of bibliometric assessment, and scientific communication. Despite some successful initiatives of the Russian academic journals, government structures for scientific and technical information, as well as commercial companies in changing one resources with others, development of new system of bibliometric evaluation and development of novel information services, it seems unreasonable to give up significant achievements of the last decades. Particularly, it is important to maintain the level of visibility and increase the quality of Russian academic journals in Web of Science Core Collection, although submission of new titles is now suspended. Due to the highest authority and wide use of this system worldwide, maintaining the proper level of visibility of the Russian journals in Web of Science database is believed to be a priority task. The paper discusses current problems concerning evaluation of representation of Russian academic serials in Journal Citation Reports and certain articles in Web of Science Core Collection in the light of lack of access to full-function versions of these databases. Updated list of Russian journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports / Web of Science as of 2023 is prepared.
The paper demonstrates the features of author and organizational publication profiles in Dimensio... more The paper demonstrates the features of author and organizational publication profiles in Dimensions and Lens information systems. In recent years, these systems have been successfully competing with many subscription-based systems. The authors discuss the advantages of these databases in terms of coverage of research content in publication profiles as compared to that of commercial bibliographic platforms, as well as the wide range of functional capabilities. As illustrated by publication profiles of two research organizations and their authors, we describe original approaches to searching bibliographic information, as well as editing bibliographic errors in databases. These features enable (a) to monitor effectively the scholarly output of research organizations and authors, and (b) to enhance visibility of research findings in the international information space. Solving information-retrieval problems and editing publication profiles of Russian organizations and authors in Dimensions and Lens prove to be similar to that of commercial systems, i. e. Web of Science and Scopus. The vast experience of working with proprietary databases and subscription-based systems, would enable Russian academic libraries to adapt to new interfaces in a short time frame.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2023
Appealing to external bibliographic systems is an inevitable stage when organizing in-house resou... more Appealing to external bibliographic systems is an inevitable stage when organizing in-house resources in research libraries and information services. On the one hand, data from external sources can be widely used when working with institutional repositories, e.g., at the stage of searching for data on the organization's papers, creating alerts for new entries or exporting data using appropriate formats to cut the time for bibliographic metadata processing. On the other hand, the most complete data from in-house databases can be used for data correction in external bibliographic systems to increase data accuracy in the organization's publication profiles and enhancing the visibility of bibliographic information for the scientific community. During this time of open science, the use of open access bibliographic systems is becoming more promising, especially in the light of expensiveness and other problems with access to commercial bibliographic products. The paper draws on a set of papers of one of the Russian Academy of Sciences organizations to demonstrate the facilities of open access bibliographic resources when working with institutional repository. We compare the previously used commercial systems Web of Science and Scopus with the open access Russian Science Citation Index, Dimensions, and Lens with regard to coverage of organizations' papers, as well as external databases' appropriateness for library technological processes.
The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographi... more The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographic databases that can be useful in the limited access to proprietary information systems. Databases were primarily evaluated with regard to their usefulness for researchers and research libraries who solve the problems of information and patent search, bibliometric assessment of authors, promotion of papers in international information space, searching collaborators or conducting bibliometric studies. We focused on multidisciplinary databases covering wide range of international scientific literature. Based on our own experience and literature review, we concluded on possibility in principle to solve almost all information-retrieval and bibliometric tasks using current open bibliographic databases and their web-tools. Furthermore, large volumes of metadata are now regarded as a basic and non-unique feature of different databases, while analytical characteristics are taking centre stage.
The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with rec... more The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with reclamation activities at the sites of waste storage in the mining industry in the Russian Federation. The environmental, economic and social impacts of mining are discussed. The role of reclamation in the recovery of the disturbed lands and ecosystems is illustrated, and the methods and stages of reclamation are described. The main obstacles of reclamation to be successive are revealed. It is highlighted that the spotlight should be on improvement of reclamation legislation to enhance efficiency of rehabilitation measures.
The paper aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to academic ... more The paper aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to academic journal ranking as exemplified by Russian LIS serials divided into three groups according to their authority. To reveal the EBMs' contribution in each group, papers by EBMs in their parent journals as well as other sources were studied with comparative analyses of EBMs' papers in parent journals and papers by other authors in the same journals. The Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) was used for collecting indicators that reflect journal ranks and scholarly output of EBMs. We found no relationship between journal ranking and a share of EBMs' papers in a parent journal. Citation analyses of EBMs' papers as well as citations of parent journals made by EBMs from other sources reveals a significant effect of EBMs on the rank of top-tiered and low-tiered journals pointing at active participation of EBMs in the development of parent journals. Zero or even negative impact of EBMs' papers on the journal rank is registered in the middle-tiered group implying formalistic engagement of researchers to join the editorial boards, lack of interest in the journal work, or possible violation of the publication ethics by publishing poorly cited or uncited papers in parent journals due to less strict peer-review processes. The paper adds to a better understanding of the nature of journal ranking, particularly, impact factors, as well as performance of EBMs in the field of LIS publications. The ethics and possible conflict of interests related to publishing in parent journals are discussed. The results of the study can be useful for revising journal policy or editorial board composition.
The Siberian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 2022
Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection ... more Acute respiratory viral infections are the most common human diseases. Symptoms of the infection vary from a slight cold to critical condition requiring artificial lung ventilation and support of cardiovascular system. Main risk factors of severe disease include high viral load, co-infection with other pathogens, age from 0 to 2 years and older than 65 years, and immunodeficiency. Cardiac manifestations of the infection are usually caused by indirect effects due to inflammatory reaction resulting in systemic increase in proinflammatory cytokines, so called cytokine storm. However, there have been reports on the identification of respiratory viruses isolated directly from the myocardial tissue, or testing of viral RNA in the myocardium using real-time polymerase chain reaction. This review discusses the direct and indirect effects of respiratory viral infections on causing cardiovascular complications. The authors discuss the similarities and differences of the immunopathogenic mechanisms associated with COVID-19, influenza infection, as well as diseases caused by enteroviruses, respiratory syncytial viruses, metapneumoviruses, and parainfluenza viruses.
Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology, 2022
The first part of this paper presented the current knowledge on two very significant respiratory ... more The first part of this paper presented the current knowledge on two very significant respiratory diseases with high pandemic potential, COVID-19 and influenza. The second part reviews other pathogens that cause acute respiratory viral infections, ARVI, including parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses and specifically respiratory syncytial virus, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, bocaviruses, and seasonal coronaviruses. The review presents modern data on the structure and replication of viruses, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of diseases, diagnostics, preventive vaccination, and antiviral drugs. Topical issues regarding ARVI vaccination and the search for new broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are discussed.
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections requires safe, effective, and inexpensi... more Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and other viral infections requires safe, effective, and inexpensive vaccines that can be rapidly developed. DNA vaccines are candidates that meet these criteria, but one of their drawbacks is their relatively weak immunogenicity. Electroporation (EP) is an effective way to enhance the immunogenicity of DNA vaccines, but because of the different configurations of the devices that are used for EP, it is necessary to carefully select the conditions of the procedure, including characteristics such as voltage, current strength, number of pulses, etc. In this study, we determined the optimal parameters for delivery DNA vaccine by electroporation using the BEX CO device. BALB/c mice were used as a model. Plasmid DNA phMGFP was intramuscular (I/M) injected into the quadriceps muscle of the left hind leg of animals using insulin syringes, followed by EP. As a result of the experiments, the following EP parameters were determined: direct and reverse polarity rectangular DC current in three pulses, 12 V voltage for 30 ms and 950 ms intervals, with a current limit of 45 mA. The selected protocol induced a low level of injury and provided a high level of GFP expression. The chosen protocol was used to evaluate the immunogenicity of the DNA vaccine encoding the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 protein (pVAXrbd) injected by EP. It was shown that the delivery of pVAXrbd via EP significantly enhanced both specific humoral and cellular immune responses compared to the intramuscular injection of the DNA vaccine.
Aiming to increase Russian journals’ authority and enhance their readership, and consequently, jo... more Aiming to increase Russian journals’ authority and enhance their readership, and consequently, journals’ rankings, detection of reasons for Russian authors’ transition to foreign journals is important. Recent studies demonstrated that up to one-third of Russian authors orients toward top-tiered foreign serials and do not intend to change their publication preferences. One of the obvious formal reasons is in quantitative indexes used in calculations in research organizations while evaluating the research capacity of their staff. However, external circumstances, as well as the risk of part or full restriction for Russian authors in some top-tiered international journals lead to obstacles to the fulfillment of previous obligations. Under such conditions increase in the reputation of Russian serials, their compliance with international publishing standards, increase in their bibliometric indexes are of high importance. The paper aims to reveal the main issues caused to force Russian authors to select foreign journals and stop collaborating with domestic serials. Analyses of those reasons are believed to help detect the main vector for the successful development of Russian academic journals.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2022
The paper considers issues of the development, filling, and maintenance of databases of research ... more The paper considers issues of the development, filling, and maintenance of databases of research papers published by authors employed in a given research organization. Such databases should show relationships between entities within the database and links to metadata elements in external databases to enable functional search of bibliometric information with high precision and recall. It is noted that the database should have the ability to export data in the formats required for various reports. A new function of publication databases is described: popularizing and promoting publications in the scientific information space by creating open-access repositories and web mirrors. Finally, the article shares 25 years of experience of supporting a publication database at the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences that meets all of the modern requirements of the scientometric evaluation of scholarly output and scientific potential of research organizations.
Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Virology, 2022
The paper briefly reviews pathogens causing acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), including... more The paper briefly reviews pathogens causing acute respiratory viral infections (ARVIs), including influenza viruses; coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2; parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, pneumoviruses, and specifically respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumoviruses, enteroviruses, rhinoviruses, and bocaviruses. This review presents modern data on the structure and replication of viruses, epidemiology, and immunopathogenesis of diseases and on diagnostics, preventive vaccination, and antiviral drugs for the treatment of ARVIs. Special attention is paid to the SARS-CoV-2 virus caused COVID-19 pandemic with analyses of similarities and differences between COVID-19 and other ARVIs, first of all, influenza virus. Topical issues regarding ARVI vaccination and the search for new broad-spectrum antiviral drugs are discussed.
Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research an... more Publication ethics principles became one of the main aspects of conducting scientific research and presenting its results. Publication ethics challenges cover a wide range of problems of varying importance that involve all participants of publication processes: authors, academic authorities, peer-reviewers, editorial board members, publishers, and funders. All stakeholders put efforts to make modern science and publication processes ethical. This goal is achieved first of all through detailed criteria of publication ethics and extensive author guidelines, as well as by increasing the level of awareness of these criteria in educational programs aimed at prophylactics of research misconduct. However, there is a need for technical facilities for detecting different cases of violation of ethical principles, and bibliometric methods are one of the most promising approaches. The paper summarizes the authors’ recent studies on bibliometric perspectives for detecting plagiarism, inappropriate authorship, and official misconduct among editorial board members.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2021
Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals play a critical role in the verification of t... more Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals play a critical role in the verification of the quality of published papers and dissemination of knowledge. This results in increased interest in the work and scholarly output of EBMs themselves, including publications in parent journal. This paper tries to specify various publication relationships between EBMs and their parent journals and evaluates them focusing on publication ethics principles. The authors propose an additional bibliometric index referred to as the coefficient of publication relationships between EBMs and parent journals that describes publication ties between EBMs and parent journals, the opportunity for their effective use for the development of their journal, as well as possible cases of violation of publication ethics criteria. The results of validation of the new coefficient using a sample of Russian Earth Science serials are given.
The paper summarizes experience of the authors as peer-reviewers of more than 100 manuscripts in ... more The paper summarizes experience of the authors as peer-reviewers of more than 100 manuscripts in twelve Russian and foreign academic journals on Library and Information Science in the last seven years. Prepared peer-reviews were used for making a list of the most usual critical and special comments for each manuscript that were subsequently structured for the conducted analyzes. Typical issues accompanying the peer-review process are shown. Significant differences between the results of peer-review in Russian and foreign journals are detected: although the initial quality of newly submitted manuscripts is approximately equal, the final published versions in foreign journals addressed all critical and the majority of minor reviewers’ comments, while in Russian journals more than one third of final versions were published with critical gaps. We conclude about low interest in high quality peer reviews among both authors and editors-in-chief in Russian journals. Despite the limitations of the samples, the obtained findings can be useful when evaluating the current peer-review system in Russian academic journals on Library and Information Science.
The authors review the papers delivered at the Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibli... more The authors review the papers delivered at the Third Scientific Conference “Scientometrics, bibliometrics, open data and publications in science” held within the framework of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea–2021”) (June 5–13, 2021, Republic of Crimea, Russian Federation). The Conference key topics discussed at its three sessions were: trends in sci-tech development, scientometric studies of scientific periodicals, as well as case studies and regional research through scientometric tools. The hot topics in Russian scientometrics are specified, including applied studies of bibliometric analysis for assessment of researchers, organizations, countries and journals, as well as of science migration streams, and theoretical development of new indicators of or search for scientometric frontiers. Within the practical part of the conference, The Basics of Bibliometrics crash course was offered to the participants. It comprised essential knowledge, competences and skills of work with science citation databases. The need for the more intensive exchange of knowledge within the Russian emerging scientometrics community to expand competences, to strengthen communication between those assessing and being assessed is substantiated. These would contribute not only scientometrics but the Russian science on the whole.
Bulletin of the Tomsk Polytechnic University. Geo Аssets Engineering, 2021
The relevance of the study is caused by the increased necessity to solve ecological issues in Rus... more The relevance of the study is caused by the increased necessity to solve ecological issues in Russian Arctic regions considering their importance for the development of the country. The task complexity lies both in the presence of cumulative environmental damage and the topicality to elaborate sustainable approaches to natural resource development in the near future. The main aim is to analyze the condition of the ecosystem and its separate components in the Norilsk industrial area as one of the significant resource territories in the Russian Arctic. Special attention is paid to techniques of monitoring the environment and official documents regulating ecology that require the elimination of acute contradictions and legislative vacuum. Methods of the research include analyses of research papers published in Russian and foreign sources in the last decade on environmental challenges in the Russian Arctic and especially in the Norilsk industrial area. Various bibliographic systems including the Russian Science Citation Index, Scopus, and «Environment protection» abstract service by VINITI were used. Results. Unique characteristics of Arctic regions were revealed that require both non-traditional technological concepts when conducting an industrial activity, and special approaches when regulating and controlling ecological state. The example of the Norilsk industrial area was used to demonstrate improvements in ecological aspects of industrial activity of mining and smelting enterprise even despite the incident with a fuel spill in 2020. However, the attempted measures are still insufficient to regard the current ecological situation as satisfactory. The problems of neutral ization of cumulative environmental damage have awaited solutions. The efficiency of planned measures for improvement of the state of the environment essentially depends on changes in legal acts poorly considering specific features of Arctic territories, as well as on closer collaboration of industrial enterprises both with the scientific community and local residents.
A review of studies on the question of the mobility of Russian scientists in the recent period of... more A review of studies on the question of the mobility of Russian scientists in the recent period of Russian history is provided. The main stages and trends in the development of academic mobility over the past three decades are shown. The geography of migration flows, which involve employees of Russian research organizations and universities, is generalized. The unique position of Russia in terms of attractiveness for migrants from neighboring countries, which makes it possible to compensate to a certain extent for the outflow of domestic specialists, is emphasized. In addition, the authors draw attention to the methodological aspects of studying academic mobility and assessing its effectiveness, including the problem of data reliability and the development of a system of indicators.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, Dec 2020
The methodological and technical aspects of identifying research fronts and trends in the develop... more The methodological and technical aspects of identifying research fronts and trends in the development of science are considered. Based on the literature data, a comparison of scientometric methods for finding research fronts was carried out: analysis of publication activity, direct citation analysis, co-citation analysis , bibliographic coupling, and content analysis. The advantages of the combined application of various approaches are shown, the role of expert assessment and verification of the results of scientometric analysis is emphasized. We revealed topical problems associated with the detection of scientific fronts by scientometric methods and showed promising directions in their solution.
Distributed Information and Computational Resources (DICR-2022): Proceedings of the XVIII Russian Conference with International Participation (5–8 December 2022), 2022
The report discusses current requirements to preparation, storing and presentation of metadata on... more The report discusses current requirements to preparation, storing and presentation of metadata on scholarly output of researchers at scientific organization. The authors (a) underline the need for permanent modernization of internal databases in response to growth in the number of new data fields describing the paper; (b) justify the necessity to provide links between internal metadata elements with that of external bibliographic databases; (c) highlight the importance of storage and presentation of metadata in dif-ferent formats for decreasing information risks of data loss and enhancing open access to those data.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2022) (20–25 November 2022), 2022
In the current context of information risks of losing access to commercial international informat... more In the current context of information risks of losing access to commercial international information resources, the problem of intensive development of Russian academic journals is of particular importance. One of the unsolved problems includes extremely low presence and visibility of journals' archives in the digital information space. At the same time, the presence of electronic archives of journals plays essential role in authority of scientific serials, their bibliometric indices and ranks, enhancement of domestic and international readership, as well as the engagement of new authors. Possible approaches to preparing and presenting metadata in open access are discussed as the case study of «Geologiya i Geofizika» journal. Special attention is paid to the important role of academic libraries in digital archiving.
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2022) (20–25 November 2022), 2022
The authors compare the models of publishing processes in Russian and international academic jour... more The authors compare the models of publishing processes in Russian and international academic journals. It is shown that current publishing process beginning with manuscript submission and ending with publication is significantly more attractive in international journals as compared to obsolete Russian approaches. In the context of the increased significance of domestic journals in Russia, comprehension and adaptation of the best international practices are of key importance for obtaining and spreading scientific knowledge.
The report describes the experience of the authors as peer-reviewers in Russian and foreign acade... more The report describes the experience of the authors as peer-reviewers in Russian and foreign academic journals on Library and Information Science. Shortcomings in the manuscripts are classified. Differences between the results of peer-review in Russian and foreign journals are detected. Some recommendations to enhancement of peer-review process in Russian journals are provided aimed at increase in the quality of published papers and the development of Library and Information Science.
The authors discuss the problem of publications by editorial board members in their parent journa... more The authors discuss the problem of publications by editorial board members in their parent journal with relation to bibliometrics and publication ethics. This issue is of the same nature as self-citedness. However, while self-citedness is classified, its motivation factors are defined, and recommendations are provided for the ethical thresholds, the problem of publishing in parent journals is still awaiting thorough investigation. The authors propose to categorize publishing in the parent journal. The ethical aspects and criteria are discussed, and a new bibliometric index – editorial board-parent journal publications coefficient is proposed to be introduced.
Proceedings of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea-2021”), 2021
The authors use an example of Russian journals in Earth sciences to analyze the availability of a... more The authors use an example of Russian journals in Earth sciences to analyze the availability of altmetrics for additional evaluation of different features of serials. The set of altmetrics aggregated by Plum Analytics on the Scopus platform was studied. We demonstrate the availability and applicability of the altmetrics like abstract views, full-text views, and a share of viewed items for journal assessment; high dependence between these altmetrics and traditional citation-based approaches is detected. Providing enhanced possibilities of automatic processing of altmetrics and wider covering of Russian sources, altmetrics may become a valuable scientometric tool in some complicated cases.
Proceedings of the Sixth World Professional Forum “The book. Culture. Education. Innovations” (“Crimea-2021”), Oct 2021
The phenomenon of academic mobility attracts the increased attention of researchers in recent yea... more The phenomenon of academic mobility attracts the increased attention of researchers in recent years due to complicating scientific interactions, escalation of research migration flows and enhanced significance of mobility for scientific progress, dissemination of knowledge, and career development of researchers. The rapid increase in the number of papers on academic mobility is also caused by the emergence of new analytical tools including bibliometric ones. The report demonstrates current types of academic mobility and development of main subject areas detected via citation analysis in the last 30 years.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI2021), 2021
The study aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to ranks of ... more The study aims to detect publication contributions of editorial board members (EBMs) to ranks of academic journals as exemplified by Russian Library and Information Science serials. We failed to find any relationship between journal rank and a share of EBMs papers in a parent journal. Citation analyses of papers by EBMs as well as citations of a parent journal made by EBMs from other sources revealed a significant effect of EBM on the rank of top-tiered and low-tiered journals. Zero or negative impact of EBMs papers on the journal rank was registered in the middle-tiered group.
Proceedings of International Conference “Science, Technology and Information in Libraries” (LIBWAY-2020), 2021
Revealing research fronts and detecting research priorities are one of the most significant probl... more Revealing research fronts and detecting research priorities are one of the most significant problems in the science of science and scientific policy due to the crucial importance when planning research. Bibliometric approaches are the main tool when detecting research trends and fronts providing the basis for further expertise of research priority. To date, different approaches have been developed for research trends and fronts detection including analysis of scholarly output, citation analysis, and content analysis. The most spread is citation analysis and its variants, i.e., direct citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and bibliographic coupling. The paper discusses the main features of each method; describes current issues of detecting research fronts and setting of research priorities. The authors conclude that bibliometric approaches for detecting research fronts and research priorities are objective, especially when combining different forms of bibliometric analyses. Bibliometrics seems to be the most promising approach due to its flexibility and capability to be rapidly adapted to a dynamic scientific environment and new publication models.
Proceedings of International Conference “Science, Technology and Information in Libraries” (LIBWAY-2020), 2020
Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals have been frequently studied for better under... more Editorial board members (EBMs) of academic journals have been frequently studied for better understanding the principles of their functioning, impact on editorial policy, publication ethics, and entire scientific progress. One of the promising trends is to quantitatively evaluate the contribution of EBMs to the scholarly output of parent journals. This paper represents the results of the study on publication activity of editorial board members of the Russian Library and Information Science journals. To detect a share of papers by EBMs in the journal’s scholarly output, we studied a share of EBMs papers in parent journals and other sources. Generally, we detected the active participation of EBMs in increasing scholarly output of parent journals. We also studied the publication activity of foreign members of EBMs in Russian journals that turned out to be dramatically low. Formal involvement of foreign researchers to enhance the level of journal’s internationalization may explain this situation. It is shown, that the fact of publication fails to significantly impact on journal’s ranking positions. The scientific quality of EBMs papers has proved to be of higher value: in case of high quality of EBMs papers, the number of readers and citations start to increase. On the other hand, uncited papers by EBMs have the lowest or even negative effect on the journal’s rank. The findings can be of interest to editors-in-chief and founders of academic journals.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2020), 2020
Identifying research priorities and trends is one of the most important strategic tasks of scient... more Identifying research priorities and trends is one of the most important strategic tasks of scientific organizations. Its accomplishment enables to distribute limited funds more efficiently and to establish an interest balance between various stakeholders in research activity; it also makes research organization and its structural divisions more competitive in the academic space. The paper reports the findings of bibliometric analysis; research priorities for an individual research organization specialized in the earth sciences, are revealed. The discussed approaches based on the use of citation analysis and content analysis can significantly enhance expert evaluation process at the stage of setting research priorities.
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2020), 2020
Various models of editorial board members’ publishing in parent journal are examined. Editorial m... more Various models of editorial board members’ publishing in parent journal are examined. Editorial membership makes an important stage of the academic career; hence, this requires careful bibliometric examination of editor researchers’ publication strategies. We examine the popular approaches of editors-in-chief toward publications by their editorial board members’ in the parent journal, in the range from encouragement to prohibition. Using a sample of Russian library and information science journals, we demonstrate that the publication models of editorial board members depend on the journal’s rank.
Proceedings of the IV International Conference “Informatization of Education and E-learning Methodology: Digital Technologies in Education”, 2020
The report discusses opportunities of a university or scientific organization library in detectin... more The report discusses opportunities of a university or scientific organization library in detecting research fronts and research priorities. As such tasks require the use of bibliometric approaches, the involvement of academic libraries in their solution is believed to be logical and necessary. The paper describes current tools for the detection of research fronts and research priorities and provides examples of library participation in their study.
Proceedings of the IV International Conference “Informatization of Education and E-learning Methodology: Digital Technologies in Education”, 2020
Information literacy and acquaintance with publication ethics including issues on authorship, cop... more Information literacy and acquaintance with publication ethics including issues on authorship, copyright, plagiarism, and conflict of interest in changed conditions of organization and distribution of research and development information has become a key competency influencing the effectiveness of scientific work and the academic career of a scientist. This report demonstrates the learning activity of academic libraries for enhancing the information competency of young researchers.
Proceedings of the XVI International Scientific Conference “Interexpo GEO-Siberia” (20–24 April 2020, Novosibirsk, Russia), Sep 2020
This report presents a bibliometric approach to identifying research fronts in scientific organiz... more This report presents a bibliometric approach to identifying research fronts in scientific organizations, based on a multiplex analysis of the flow of publications of authors from the analyzed organization. A model for more accurate subject clustering of publications of a scientific organization based on the GRNTI classification is proposed and tested using the example of geophysics research area. Based on metadata from the publication clusters allocated by GRNTI, algorithms for compiling query profiles in a scientometric database for further detection of research fronts are presented.
23rd International Conference and Exhibition “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2019) (18–22 November 2019, Suzdal, Russia), Dec 23, 2019
Examination of geographic distribution and publication activity of journal editorial members make... more Examination of geographic distribution and publication activity of journal editorial members makes a new scientometrical approach towards assessing periodicals and related disciplines. The findings of the analysis of Russian journals in information and library sciences demonstrate: the location of the major expert communities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, as well as in Samara and Voronezh; the relatively low share (21 %) and nominal enrollment of foreign experts in the journals; high concentration of editorial members in high schools (47 %); substantial influence of editorial members publication activity on the journal rating indicators. Thus, for individual journals, the share of the papers by editorial members amounts to the one quarter, their share in their own journal – makes up to the one third, citation share for editorial board amounts to the half, and the hidden self-citation of their journal by the editorial board members makes up to the one third. The blurring core of the journals in the journals under examination and their shift towards the periodicals of low bibliometric indicators are also revealed.
23rd International Conference and Exhibition “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” (LIBCOM-2019), Dec 23, 2019
The bibliometrical approach toward revealing priority science vectors in research organizations b... more The bibliometrical approach toward revealing priority science vectors in research organizations based on the multifactor analysis of staff publications is discussed. Using the content analysis and citation analysis methods, the author suggests to formulate inquiry profiles within organizational subject scope in the Web of Science, a scientometric database, based on KeyWords Plus in the staff’s publications. The inquiry result will be the corps of international publications within the similar subject scope which also enables to accomplish subject classification of publications. The further comparative analysis enables to specify the most promising vectors for organizational research studies.
Unethical authorship implying addition in byline authors who fail to satisfy authorship criteria ... more Unethical authorship implying addition in byline authors who fail to satisfy authorship criteria is believed to be one the type of plagiarism and is widespread type of violation of publication ethics. Academic and publishing communities developed different approaches to prevent and eliminate unethical authorship including the development of additional authorship criteria, specifying author guidelines and recommendations for reviewers and editors, organizing and giving workshops on publication ethics principles, bibliometric methods to detecting unacceptable types of authorship. This report review modern state of the problem and possible ways to solve it.
International publisher’s standards and tasks of ethical preparing of academic journals and papers indexed in global scientometric databases: recommendations of experts and experience of indexed journals, 2019
The 20th Anniversary International Conference and Exhibition “Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries” LIBCOM-2016, 2016
The textbook is aimed at the development of skills to responsibly work with scientific and techni... more The textbook is aimed at the development of skills to responsibly work with scientific and technical information. The textbook consists of an Introduction and five chapters. The Introduction represents general knowledge on scientific information functioning. The first chapter describes the most authoritative academic publishers, discusses search capabilities of publishers' web-platforms, introduces strengths and limitations of the open access model, represents the problem of predatory publishers. The second chapter depicts databases of academic papers and journals, describes principles of work with bibliographic database tools. The third chapter introduces the identification of objects of bibliographic description. The fourth chapter represents bibliometric indices and principles of their informed usage. At the end of each chapter there is a list of comprehension questions, tests, and further reading. Although Earth Sciences information resources are usually used as an example throughout the textbook, presented data can be used by experts in other research areas, as well. The textbook is designed for young academic authors, i.e., master's and postgraduate students, as well as junior researchers.
A study “Influenza viruses. Methods” comprises two parts. The first part includes a contemporary ... more A study “Influenza viruses. Methods” comprises two parts. The first part includes a contemporary view on influenza viruses structure and reproduction, epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of influenza infection, preventive vaccination, and etiotropic drugs. The second part describes detailed protocols of main methods for studying influenza viruses including sampling and transportation of virus-containing clinical material, cultivation of viruses in cell cultures and chicken embryos, serological methods for virus typing and subtyping, investigation of specific blood sera to detect the presence of antibodies to different influenza virus types/subtypes, study of viruses sensitivity to anti-influenza drugs, production of recombinant viruses using reverse genetics approach. This book is dedicated to virologists, molecular biologists, health workers, as well as graduate and post-graduate students specializing in virology.
The manual presents the main methodological approaches to working with cell cultures: management ... more The manual presents the main methodological approaches to working with cell cultures: management of cell cultures, their passirovanie, counting cells per unit volume, preparation of antibiotic solutions, dispersing solutions and nutrient media for working with cell cultures, contamination of cell cultures and methods of its detection, cryopreservation of cells, safety when working in a box room with cell cultures, Biosafety when working with cell cultures. Meets the requirements of the Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. Designed for professionals and undergraduate students qualified in the field of biotechnology and Virology to solve a wide range of problems.
This study guide is written for third-year students of Natural Sciences Department and Medicine D... more This study guide is written for third-year students of Natural Sciences Department and Medicine Department specializing in microbiology and virology. The study guide comprises two parts. In Part I contemporary perceptions of influenza viruses’ structure and reproduction, as well as of epidemiology and immunopathogenesis of influenza infection are given. In Part II detailed protocols of essential methods for influenza viruses study are described: cultivation in chick-embryo and cell cultures, serological methods for testing viruses, study of susceptibility of viruses to anti-influenza drugs, molecular genetic studies.
This book aims to introduce key information on the preparation of manuscripts to publishing and d... more This book aims to introduce key information on the preparation of manuscripts to publishing and description of modern tools helping authors to correctly format and submit their paper. Besides, basic information on the functioning of papers after their publication is presented, as well as bibliometric methods of their evaluation are described. This textbook is generally intended for young scientists, i.e. postgraduate students and junior researchers. However, an application with detailed data on Earth science journals is believed to be substantially useful for experienced specialists when selecting journals to publish their research results.
This book contains key information on preparing manuscripts for publication and describes contemp... more This book contains key information on preparing manuscripts for publication and describes contemporary tools developed to assist authors of research articles. Furthermore, basics concerning life cycle of papers after publishing, as well as bibliometric methods for their assessment are given.
First of all this guide is intended for use by aspiring authors, postgraduate students and junior scientists. However, a supplement with detailed description of Earth sciences journals can provide help in journal selection to more experienced researchers.
The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographi... more The paper presents a review of function capabilities and coverage of sources in open bibliographic databases that can be useful in the limited access to proprietary information systems. Databases were primarily evaluated with regard to their usefulness for researchers and research libraries who solve the problems of information and patent search, bibliometric assessment of authors, promotion of papers in international information space, searching collaborators or conducting bibliometric studies. We focused on multidisciplinary databases covering wide range of international scientific literature. Based on our own experience and literature review, we concluded on possibility in principle to solve almost all information-retrieval and bibliometric tasks using current open bibliographic databases and their web-tools. Furthermore, large volumes of metadata are now regarded as a basic and non-unique feature of different databases, while analytical characteristics are taking centre stage.
Information technologies, computer systems and publications for libraries: Proceedings of the Twenty Sixth International Conference and Exhibition «LIBCOM-2022»
The authors compare the models of publishing processes in Russian and international academic jour... more The authors compare the models of publishing processes in Russian and international academic journals. It is shown that current publishing process beginning with manuscript submission and ending with publication is significantly more attractive in international journals as compared to obsolete Russian approaches. In the context of the increased significance of domestic journals in Russia, comprehension and adaptation of the best international practices are of key importance for obtaining and spreading scientific knowledge.
Information technologies, computer systems and publications for libraries: Proceedings of the Twenty Sixth International Conference and Exhibition «LIBCOM-2022»
In the current context of information risks of losing access to commercial international informat... more In the current context of information risks of losing access to commercial international information resources, the problem of intensive development of Russian academic journals is of particular importance. One of the unsolved problems includes extremely low presence and visibility of journals’ archives in the digital information space. At the same time, the presence of electronic archives of journals plays essential role in authority of scientific serials, their bibliometric indices and ranks, enhancement of domestic and international readership, as well as the engagement of new authors. Possible approaches to preparing and presenting metadata in open access are discussed as the case study of «Geologiya i Geofizika» journal. Special attention is paid to the important role of academic libraries in digital archiving.
Физико-технические проблемы разработки полезных ископаемых
The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with rec... more The article gives a review of scientific publications and regulatory documents connected with reclamation activities at the sites of waste storage in the mining industry in the Russian Federation. The environmental, economic and social impacts of mining are discussed. The role of reclamation in the recovery of the disturbed lands and ecosystems is illustrated, and the methods and stages of reclamation are described. The main obstacles of reclamation to be successive are revealed. It is highlighted that the spotlight should be on improvement of reclamation legislation to enhance efficiency of rehabilitation measures.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2016
This article describes the experience in editing organization profiles in Scopus and in the Scien... more This article describes the experience in editing organization profiles in Scopus and in the Science Index for organizations system, which is an add-on to the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The basic functionalities of the two systems are analyzed and comparison of the Science Index for organizations with the possibilities of editing an organization profile in Scopus is carried out. An attempt is made to give an objective assessment of the current state of the two systems from the user’s point of view. The conclusion is made that despite the more extensive functionalities of the Science Index for organizations, the feedback system in Scopus is well thought out and provides better control of changes that are requested by organizations. In the system of editing the profile of an organization in the RSCI the functional tools are characterized by a low level of moderation, which has a formal character; therefore, it can be used not only to edit a profile, but to create unreasonable increases in the values of bibliometric indicators.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2016
This paper presents a review of publications that explore the role of editorial boards for schola... more This paper presents a review of publications that explore the role of editorial boards for scholarly journals. Such studies are rather limited as the role of editorial boards of scientific periodicals has not yet been fully gauged by information experts as a subject of scientometric research. However, the study of the publication activities, as well as the geographic, linguistic, and gender distribution of editorial-board members offers a new perspective on several issues of relevance to scientometrics. Such issues include the assessment of research performance at the country, organizational, or research-group level; research and publication ethics; journal quality; and internationalization of a scientific discipline.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2014
To date, there is no unique accepted and standardized method for identifying journal articles, au... more To date, there is no unique accepted and standardized method for identifying journal articles, authors, and other elements of bibliographic metadata, although in recent years a considerable number of identifiers have been developed. The problem of identification becomes particularly urgent when the same information is used in different scientometric and bibliographic databases, when it is necessary to carry out complex data processing with their further integration. The need for unique identifiers outside of a system is a universal requirement. Initiatives to construct identifiers and systems appear regularly in the scientific press; however, they have not achieved the necessary degree of interoperability. This paper presents the general problems that are associated with metadata identifiers of scientific publications, analyzes a number of the existing systems and technologies, and indicates the current initiatives to remove the gap in the area of identification.
Scientific and Technical Information Processing, 2015
Originally, most bibliometric research is aimed at the improvement of library collection-manageme... more Originally, most bibliometric research is aimed at the improvement of library collection-management methods and at the development of new methods for the selection of documents for a collection. This is also true of the impact factor, which was designed to evaluate journals before their inclusion in the collections of research libraries. Thus, the core of bibliometrics is librarianship. However, in recent years bibliometric studies are mainly conducted for the evaluation of scientific developments and individual scientists. In this case, a significant part of such research is carried out by workers at research libraries. Paradoxically, these approaches are not used in librarianship itself. With the expansion of the range of available tools, the development and use of bibliometric methods for the analysis of scientific information in libraries, especially in the acquisition process, once again has become relevant, which is consistent with the changes in science and publishing themselves. This has been stated by both foreign and domestic experts.
In this study, we used bibliometric analyses to identify journals that are representative of SRC ... more In this study, we used bibliometric analyses to identify journals that are representative of SRC VB “Vector” and IPGG SB RAS. We also describe methods to semiautomatically collect data for an institute’s publications and which journals they cite. Citation analyses of lists of articles and their citations can help librarians to quickly identify the preferred journals in terms of the number of publications, and the most frequently cited journals. The librarian can use these data to generate a list of journals that an institute should subscribe to.<br />
The paper presents a ten-year bibliometric study of “Seismic Technologies” journal published by T... more The paper presents a ten-year bibliometric study of “Seismic Technologies” journal published by Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. In the study we used both generally accepted bibliometric methods including citation analysis, detection of a share of uncited papers, distribution of citations per years, analysis of the level of internationalization of the journal, as well as rather new approaches for analysis of publication activity and geographic distribution of editorial board members. The obtained findings related to “Seismic Technologies” were compared with relevant indices of the most ranked Russian journals on Earth sciences to reveal the journal’s position among other Russian serials and to detect its possibilities to be selected in international citation databases.
Приводятся результаты исследований по выявлению переводного плагиата в научных текстах на основе ... more Приводятся результаты исследований по выявлению переводного плагиата в научных текстах на основе анализа цитирования. Метод сличения пристатейных списков был предложен в начале 2010-х гг. и одновременно разрабатывается нашим коллективом и коллективом зарубежных авторов. Особенностью предложенного нами подхода является поиск оригинала для подозрительной статьи не в полнотекстовых, а в библиометрических системах, что расширяет фактологическую базу и повышает возможности обнаружения заимствований. Приводятся результаты по выявлению плагиата в различных типах публикаций на базе двух систем – Web of Science и Scopus.
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First of all this guide is intended for use by aspiring authors, postgraduate students and junior scientists. However, a supplement with detailed description of Earth sciences journals can provide help in journal selection to more experienced researchers.